Thomas Alan Holmes, a member of the East Tennessee State University English faculty, lives and writes in Johnson
City, Tennessee. Some of his work has appeared in Louisiana Literature, Appalachian Journal, Seminary Ridge Review, Florida Review,
Blue Mesa Review, Black Warrior Review, and The Southern Poetry Anthology Volume III: Contemporary Appalachia, with work forthcoming in
Cape Rock Journal, Stoneboat, Connecticut Review, Emerge, and Noctua Review.